"Americans told President Obama in 2012, 'If you like your popularity, you can keep it.' 

"We lied. 

"Well, at least we didn't tell him the whole truth. What we meant to say was that Obama could keep the support of a majority of Americans unless he broke our trust. Throughout his first term, even as his job-approval rating cycled up and down, one thing remained constant: Polls showed that most Americans trusted Obama. 

"As they say in Washington, that is no longer operable. 

"A new Quinnipiac University poll shows for the first time that a majority of Americans (52 percent) don't think the president is honest and trustworthy."

"Somehow the president continues to insist that he really was telling the truth when he promised that you could keep your plan — dozens of times — and is just as shocked as anyone else to find out that you can’t. This, despite the fact that his aides debated, both publicly and privately, about whether or not he should say something so demonstrably untrue. When you start lying about your lies, there really is a problem."

"President Barack Obama's signature accomplishment is teetering. The Obamacare website is a national punch line. Millions of Americans, repeatedly reassured by Obama that they could keep their doctors and health plans, are discovering that they can't. Their insurance policies are being canceled. The price of new coverage is substantially higher. The new coverage may force them to choose new doctors. And the law says they have to buy insurance or pay a fine. ... 

"The odds against a fundamental restructuring of the law are steep, given the deep distrust Republicans and Democrats have for each other. But that's what will be needed. A bold reboot, a Manhattan Project for health care reform that starts fresh with some basic principles. 

"An essential first step: Accept that government doesn't know what's best for everyone. That people can decide what coverage they need and can afford. A strong marketplace offers choices for every wallet. Obamacare's rules curtail those choices."

"Honor to the solider, and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his county’s cause. Honor to him … who braves for the common good the storms of Heaven and the storms of battle." 

"I'm sorry, too, Mr. President. ... 

"I'm sorry you campaigned for reelection on the famous false promise: 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan. Period.' ... 

"I'm sorry that when Americans recognized the deception you tried to reinvent history: 'What we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.' No, no, no, no, no — that's not what you guys said.  

"I'm sorry you didn't trust Americans with the truth."

"The ObamaCare disaster reached the Oval Office Wednesday when the president was forced to meet with 15 worried Democratic Senators who are facing the voters next year.

"The Senators went to the White House because of growing complaints from voters about ObamaCare’s devastating impact on their finances and health-care access.

"The Oval Office meeting allows the Senators to show themselves standing up for their constituents. That’s a remarkable split for a caucus that allowed parts of government to close in early October rather than accept any GOP reforms of ObamaCare."

"The off-year election is over. Now the midterm campaign can genuinely begin. 

"The twin gubernatorial races settled Tuesday — always the marquee political events one year into each presidential administration — will be dissected endlessly for insights into the nation’s ideological shift and the outlook for each party’s congressional candidates next Nov. 4. Much of the extrapolation will be overwrought."

"When Obama claims your old plan was 'junk,' he's not leveling with you. Your health plan wasn't canceled out of some kind of concern that you are insufficiently insured. Rather, you simply must pay more – and get less – to make ObamaCare's finances work. 

"Rather than prioritize federal or state government budgets to subsidize those with pre-existing conditions – treating them as the rare special cases they are – Obama chose to finance their care by making you pay more into the system and get less out of it whenever you eventually become sick. Someone out there is benefiting from ObamaCare. It just isn't you. 

"Middle-income cancellation victims are the Affordable Care Act's first cash cow. Their insurance will now be less affordable and of lower quality - or to use the common phrase, 'junk.'"

"If ObamaCare is fully implemented, 68 percent of Americans with private health insurance will not be able to keep their plan, according to health care economist Christopher Conover. 

"Conover is a research scholar in the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In an interview with The Daily Caller, he laid out what he estimates the consequences of ObamaCare’s implementation will ultimately be. 

"'Bottom line: of the 189 million Americans with private health insurance coverage, I estimate that if ObamaCare is fully implemented, at least 129 million (68 percent) will not be able to keep their previous health care plan either because they already have lost or will lose that coverage by the end of 2014,' he said in an email. 'But of these, "only" the 18 to 50 million will literally lose coverage, i.e., have their plans entirely taken away. This includes 9.2-15.4 million in the non-group market and 9-35 million in the employer-based market. The rest will retain their old plans but have to pay higher rates for ObamaCare-mandated bells and whistles.'"

"ObamaCare is the largest transfer of wealth in recent American history. But you can’t say that openly lest you lose elections. So you do it by subterfuge: hidden taxes, penalties, mandates and coverage requirements that yield a surplus of overpayments. 

"So that your president can promise to cover 30 million uninsured without costing the government a dime. Which from the beginning was the biggest falsehood of them all. And yet the free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. Free mammograms, free preventative care, free contraceptives for Sandra Fluke. Come and get it. 

"And then when you find your policy canceled, your premium raised and your deductible outrageously increased, you’ve learned the real meaning of 'free' in the liberal lexicon: something paid for by your neighbor — best, by subterfuge."